The National Archive of Monuments was established and has been operating since 2002, pursuant to Article 4 of Law 3028/2002, as codified by Law 4858/2021 ‘On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General’. It consists of three independent and simultaneously complementary units:
the Archaeological Cadastre, the Digital Collections of Mobile Monuments, and the Historical Archive of Antiquities and Restorations.
The data of the National Archive of Monuments are generated in the exercise of archaeological tasks by all the Ministry’s services, and are open for the purpose of disseminating knowledge to benefit research, development and education.
